year
\jɪə\
The verdict
“year” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,594
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Année, durée de 365 jours correspondant à une révolution de la Terre autour du Soleil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-year · year · French
year · rank #17,594 · 5 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,594
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Wimbledon
Nearest frequency peer: Wimbledon (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “year”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- volées
volées
82,410 corpus weight
- Wauquiez
Wauquiez
82,409 corpus weight
- Wimbledon
Wimbledon
82,408 corpus weight
- year
year
82,407 corpus weight
- Yvan
Yvan
82,406 corpus weight
- écoule
écoule
82,405 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “year” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | year |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \jɪə\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “year” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around year (IPA \jɪə\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,594 among 198 “Y” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for year, with forms such as "eyar", "yaer", and "yearr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "yes", "yen", "yep", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is year, spelled Y-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1Année, durée de 365 jours correspondant à une révolution de la Terre autour du Soleil.
- 2An, quand il s’agit d’âge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how year appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1880—Anti-suffrage arguments are being worn long, calm and flowing this year, with the dominant note that of woman’s intellectual inferiority.
This particular trip, combined with years of pursuing wahoo on standard long-range outings, provided a number of lessons applicable to fly fishing these wild ones.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eyar
- yaer
- yearr
- yera
- yyear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of year - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "year", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "year". Here's where to go from here.
- "year" maps to 17 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "yes". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #17,594 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "Y" letter cohort. Y–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.